Trophy reveals different outcome of 1988 Sugar Bowl?

Maybe this is common knowledge—if it is, don’t tell us—but apparently feel-good semantics ruled the pre-overtime era of college football, at least when it came to games with a trophy at the end (or at least when it came to inscribing those trophies). Because if you look closely you’ll notice that, no, Auburn didn’t TIE Syracuse in the 1988 Sugar Bowl—we CO-WON.

Perhaps a Bama fan inscribed it—co-winning sounds like the game-specific version of a bogus national title—or maybe Charlie Sheen.

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I was at that game too Dave…it felt like a victory. The best part was all the ‘tie-Dye’ ties that were sent to Auburn weeks later….and the crates of sour grapes shipped back up north. It was a fun rivalry and no trees were killed.